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BB Gun incident
alice got shot in the right eye by a copper pellet BB Gun by her youngest brother when she was eight years old. -
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1960's Civil Rights Movement
Alice took part in the 1960's civil rights movement in Mississippi -
college
graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in New York. -
After college
she worked as a social worker, teacher, and lecturer after she graduated from college -
Poetry
she published her first set of short stories, In Love and Trouble; Revolutionary Petunias; and a childrens book. -
Novel writing
Walker's career to become a writer took flight when she published her third novel, The Color Purple in 1982 -
Pulitzer Prize
the compelling work of her writing won her the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and also the National Book Award for Fiction.